What accounting costs in Tbilisi
The firms that publish rates give a usable range. Light Individual Entrepreneur work sits around 180 to 400 GEL a month. A small LLC without VAT registration runs roughly 350 to 550 GEL. Add VAT registration, staff or serious multi-currency income and you are at 500 to 950 GEL, with complex structures running past 1,300 GEL. Most quotes exclude 18% VAT.
Pricing is banded by transaction count, not hours. Ten bank movements a month is a different product from sixty, and firms band it that way. Find out which band you fall into before you sign, not after the third invoice.
How to choose
Start with the entity you actually have. An Individual Entrepreneur on 1% small business status needs a monthly turnover declaration and little else. A VAT-registered LLC with employees needs withholding tax, pension contributions and reverse-charge VAT on foreign services. A firm that mostly serves Georgian retailers can be excellent and still be the wrong shape for a foreign-owned software company.
Three things worth confirming on the first call
- Who actually files. Some practices hand the rs.ge work to a junior and only escalate when something breaks.
- Whether English goes all the way down. A bilingual account manager on top of a Georgian-only back office works fine until you have a real question.
- What happens at year end. Annual reporting to the Revenue Service is separate work and is often billed separately from the monthly fee.
Red flags
- No written scope of included declarations. That argument arrives in month four.
- Fees quoted without VAT and without a stated transaction band.
- Absolute promises about 1% small business status. It has conditions and prohibited activity types, and it can be revoked.
- Refusal to give you your own rs.ge credentials or a ledger export. Your data should be able to leave with you.
- A single accountant with no cover. Filings are monthly, and someone else's holiday should not become your penalty.
When you do not need to pay for this
If you are an Individual Entrepreneur on 1% status, invoicing two or three foreign clients a month into one Georgian bank account and nothing else, filing it yourself is genuinely reasonable. The declaration is short and the deadline is fixed. Plenty of freelancers do it for years without incident.
Start paying the moment any of the following is true: you register for VAT, you hire anyone, you hold inventory, you trade in several currencies at volume, or you are within sight of the 500,000 GEL small business ceiling. It is also worth paying for the first month regardless of size. Having someone set the accounts up correctly and then taking it back yourself costs far less than unwinding a year of guesses.
For the structural questions that sit underneath all of this, see our guides on bookkeeping requirements for a Georgian LLC and what accounting services cost in Georgia.
